[AGL] Mollie Ivins church & Sholz Garten

[Fontaine Maverick]

Great take on the reaction to the quote from Linda, Michael! Collective 
scream indeed. The crowd was on their feet laughing, crying, yelling and 
clapping after Linda read it.

I was afraid for a minute that the Limos and nice cars at the Garden meant 
the crowd would have to compete with Superbowl fans. If there were any, we 
ran them off.

A minor correction or two: I got the impression that Molly "got religion" as 
part
of her 12 step program, and she did indeed refer to her higher power as
"Fred". She apparently stopped calling him "Fred" after she got the 9 month
chip.

Sandy's maiden name was Hauser, but she goes by Richards. She did date 
Ramsey, before he married me and she married David.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:21 AM
Subject: [AGL] Mollie Ivins church & Sholz Garten



> things i learnt at Mollie Ivins church commemoration:

>

> Mollie was a child of privilege, River Oaks, Houston Yacht

> Club, prep school and Smith College.

>

> at some point after getting sick she got religion. she used

> to call Him Fred. but at some point she dropped Fred and

> started naming Him by His real name.

>

> was a drunk (beer drunk). stopped a mere 18 months ago.

> one of the lady speakers who apparently was hot on this

> subject explained this. not clear about this. will check with

> friend Jan Demetri who attended her Final Friday parties.

>

> Final Friday not mentioned by any speaker. so far as i

> understand it, this was Mollie's book club, with books

> assigned for the next gathering, named presumably in honor

> of Sam & Virginia's First Friday parties. i guess that it was

> at Sam & Virginia's where i met Mollie and she (gasp!)

> learned my first name. so when we ran into one another

> she actually knew my name. contrast this with Ann Richards.

> in later years at chance encounters Ann would give me the huggy

> huggy but she didnt know my name, me not being important

> enough. this seems terribly significant to me, not in regard to

> myself (ah could care less!) but in regard to Ann: one cold cold

> lady.

>

> Dave Richards and second wife Sandy Heiser were

> sitting in the row in front of us flanking their 2 handsome

> children. we interfaced briefly with Sandy whom we

> knew way back when she taught exercise at gyms.

> She used to go either with Ed Bennett or Ramsay

> cant remember which. Dave nodded at us i think

> but hard to be sure. sort of in between a nod and looking

> the other way. is there a word for this? my roommate

> claims that he was drunk at the Sholz Garten (this is

> based on his bloodshot eyes -- he wasnt drunk at

> the church or maybe he was). i vaguely remember

> him disappearing through the door to the left of the

> front of the church during the proceedings and then

> reappearing and sitting down.

>

> church full of very tall older Texans -- i mean tall:

> women 6 feet plus, men 6'6" plus. These must have

> been family and collaterals.

>

> as we hurried to the church after parking the car

> we saw 3 or 4 stretch limousines parked in front.

> was this a funeral service i wondered. apparently

> not. later i saw the same limousines in front of

> the Sholz Garten. the limousines, like the Too Tall

> types in the church was the background indicating

> itself.

>

> Mollie's crack about Bush quoted by Linda Lewis

> a handsome confident-looking black woman in her 50's

> brought the house down. all the pent up feeling

> about losing Mollie combined with everyone's

> realization of who Bush turned out to expressed

> itself in a collective scream.

>

>

> .

>